Man jailed for part in taxi robbery

A Mayo man whose companion used a garrote on a taxi driver when they robbed him at a halting site has been jailed for three years by Judge Rory Maccabe at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Michael Conroy (aged 20), originally from Ballinrobe, and was also jailed for driving the getaway car from a mugging which was then halted after a chase by gardaí.